Larger Kindle expected this week

Jake Widman
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 03:17

Your IT - Mobility

In April, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch praised the Kindle and alluded to an investment by News Corp in a larger, full-color device.

There's no indication of who would manufacture such a device: all the other prominent e-readers are black and white, like the Kindle.

Plastic Logic , for example, is planning to have a pilot version of their reader out in the second half of this year. It will supposedly have an 8.5-x-11-inch screen but be much thinner than the Kindle -- but it'll still be black and white.

The Hearst Corporation is also rumored to be working on a newspaper-oriented e-reader.

And the elephant in the room, of course, is Apple, with its anticipated bigger-than-an-iPod touchscreen mobile device.

Such a device would have a color display suitable for video, but its screen is not expected to be as large as that of a dedicated e-reader.